log file creation - automatically

Loren M. Lang lorenl at alzatex.com
Thu Feb 3 17:39:53 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:28:02AM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote:
> I just placed my first 5.3 machine on line (previously 4.9)
> I am seeing every day two files being created:
> logloopstats
> lograwstats

Check out newsyslog, /etc/newsyslog.conf, man newsyslog, etc.

> 
> and then a date stamp for EVERY day previous:
> 
> logloopstats.20050128
> logloopstats.20050129
> lograwstats.20050128
> logrtawstats.20050129
> 
> etc
> 
> can someone enlighten me?
> 
> Thanks Jim
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